Page:Cornwall; Cambridge county geographies.djvu/161

 ROLL OF HONOUR 145 was such as to permit him to serve either party indifferently. " Sidney Godolphin," said Charles, " is never in the way and never out of the way." Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, he was made Earl of Godolphin, only to be disgraced in 1710 and die shortly after. Samuel Drew, the " Cornish Metaphysician," who was born at St Austell, had been a smuggler and a shoe- maker in his earlier days, but developed into a Wesleyan preacher and became the author of an essay on the Immortality of the Soul. Of more normal mould was Humphrey Prideaux, born at Padstow in 1648, who wrote a Life of Mahomet, and The Old and New Testa- ment Connected, which reached its 2yth edition only a few years ago. He became Dean of Norwich and died in 1724. Cornwall has produced several local antiquaries, as the Rev. Richard Polwhele, who died in 1838 ; the Rev. William Borlase, d. 1772 ; William Hals, the historian of the Duchy ; and William Sandys, who died in 1874. She has had but few true poets, but the Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, though not actually born in Cornwall, spent all his life there and may certainly come under this heading. He became Vicar of Morwen- stow in 1834, and remained there till his death in 1875, having during 'this time transformed his parishioners from a set of lawless wreckers to a decent community. His poems were almost all connected with Cornish subjects, and one of the best known of them is that on Bishop Trelawney's imprisonment " A good sword and a trusty sword," with the refrain " And shall Trelawney die ? G. c. 10